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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL - City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback
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"This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos."--Roxanne... |
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We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
JABARI ASIM - Picador
Format: Paperback
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Insightful and searing essays that celebrate the vibrancy and strength of black history and culture in America by critically acclaimed writer Jabari AsimIn We Can't Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the "Master Narrative" and replaces it with... |
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The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
HOWARD BRYANT - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotismNamed a best book of 2018 by Library JournalIt used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church... |
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Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
Chad Louis Williams - The University of Georgia Press
Format: Print book
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A collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the 2015 Charleston, SC massacre, along with excerpts from key scholarly books. It draws from a variety of disciplines -- history, sociology, urban studies, law, critical race theory -- and includes discussion questions and a selected... |
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST | NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * O: The Oprah Magazine * The Washington... |
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era
TA-NEHISI COATES - One World
Format: Hardcover
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In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump."We were eight years in power"... |
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And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise - a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White... |
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Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership
Ed Gordon - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of black intelligentsia, veteran journalist Ed Gordon creates hope and a timeless new narrative on what... |
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi - One World
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society... |
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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
Christopher J Lebron - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States.... |
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You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
Phoebe Robinson - Plume Books
Format: Paperback
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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * "A must-read ... Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you." -Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad CityA hilarious and timely essay collection... |
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Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage
Daria Roithmayr - BiblioBazaar
Format: Hardcover
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This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little... |
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Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses
Lawrence Ross - St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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"College" is a word that means many things to many people: a space for knowledge, a place to gain lifelong friends, and an opportunity to transcend one's socioeconomic station. Today, though, this word also recalls a slew of headlines that have revealed a dark and persistent... |
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I Cant Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
Matt Taibbi - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police - from the bestselling author of The DivideNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTOn July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old... |
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race - collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation - are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that... |
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